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stem and with scattering to thickly set hispidulous white hairs 

 over the surface, the latter thicker on the inflorescence : leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate in outline, 3-14 cm. long and .5-2 cm. broad, 

 obtuse, crenately lobed and lobes coarsely crenate-toothed, short- 

 petioled : flowers in terminal compound coiled helicoid cyme which 

 uncoils as the fruit is produced ; main peduncle 2-8 cm. Ion 

 pedicels 1 mm. long : sepals 5, spatulate, obtuse, 3 mm. long, 

 very glandular and hispidulous : corolla funnelform, 5-6 mm. 

 long, bright violet, lobes obovate-elliptical, subentire, spreadin 

 appendages at base of stamens attached for full length on side 

 away from filament and for lower half their length on the other 

 side to the base of filament and to each other, tips free, not en- 

 closing the base of filament : stamens and pistil half as long again 

 as corolla and exserted ; style divided two thirds of its length, its 

 base and the top of the ovary hispidulous : pod globose, slightly 

 longer than the persistent sepals : seeds 4, elliptical, 2-3 mm. 

 long, brown, not winged but strongly concave with a prominent 

 ridge running lengthwise of the concave side, transversely rugose 

 on concave side, finely pitted all over. 



Collected on the mesa near Las Cruces, Dona Ana Co., N. 

 Mex., April 10, 1893. President C. L. Herrick, of the University 

 of New Mexico, collected the same species in the Florida Mts. near 

 Deming, New Mexico, March 14, 1897, and in the Tres Her- 

 manas Mts., March 20, the same year. 



Dr. Rusby's plant from some place in New Mexico (label 

 misplaced), some plants collected by Capt. E. K. Smith in Sonora 

 (reported in the Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. under P. ciliatd), Wright's 

 no. 1579 as represented in Columbia University herbarium, and 

 Thurber's no. 11, in the same herbarium, from El Paso, March. 

 185 1, should all be referred here. The species has been confused 



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modifying the orig- 



inal description of the latter species sufficiently to include it. Our 

 plant is most like P. crcnulata but is to be distinguished by its more 

 numerous glands and noticeably less hispidulous character; its 

 leaves have rounded lobes, not incised, its flowers are smaller with 

 more nearly entire corolla-lobes and the seed is strongly trans- 

 versely rugose. 



Aster (Convzopsis) Woodhousei. 



Low spreading annual, i dm. high or less ; stems terete, spar- 

 ingly pubescent : leaves linear-oblanceolate, 1-2 cm. long, 1-3 



